ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,657, issued on July 8, was assigned to UMICORE AG & Co. KG (Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany).
"Precious metal grid for catalyzing gas phase reactions" was invented by Dirk Born (Langenselbold, Germany), Artur Wiser (Frankfurt, Germany) and Stefan Zeuner (Bad Homburg v.d.H., Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a wire made of platinum group metals for producing grid catalysts comprising platinum and rhodium. The invention is characterized in that the wire is made as a sheathed wire and consists of a core and one or more sheaths arranged one over the other outwards from the core in a radially symmetrical manner, and t...